§ CAPTAIN PRETYMAN (Suffolk, Wood-bridge)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can now see his way to relax to some extent the restrictions it has been necessary to impose upon a large area in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk on account of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyI think that as from Monday next the area of the scheduled district may with safety be somewhat reduced, and that facilities. for the movement of animals for breeding purposes may at the same time be afforded in certain parts of the district. The necessary order will be gazetted to-day. The areas from which the restrictions will be wholly withdrawn consist of the petty sessional division of North Erpingham in the county of Norfolk, and the petty sessional divisions of Blything, Hartismere, Hoxne, and Framlingham, together with the municipal boroughs of Aldeburgh, Eye, and Southwold, in the county of East Suffolk.